In accordance with COPE guidelines, Civitas. Studies in Political Philosophy permits the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools as auxiliary tools, provided that the principles of transparency, authorial responsibility, and confidentiality of the peer-review process are respected.

Disclosure of the use of AI tools for linguistic, stylistic, or structural editing of a manuscript does not constitute grounds for rejection and is not regarded as a form of academic misconduct.

Authors

Authors bear full responsibility for the entire content of the article, including the accuracy of information, argumentation, citations, and bibliographic references. Artificial intelligence tools may not be listed as authors or co-authors of a publication.

(1) If AI tools have been used to generate or substantially transform the text, develop arguments, analyse and interpret material, or create graphic elements, authors are required to inform the editorial team in the article submission form and include a brief statement in the article identifying the tool used and explaining how it was used. This statement should appear in the first footnote in the text, placed at the end of the first sentence of the submitted article.

(2) The use of AI tools solely for routine linguistic, spelling, or grammatical correction of the text must be disclosed to the editorial team in the article submission form, but does not require a separate declaration in the published article, provided that the correction has not resulted in a substantive alteration of the text.

Reviewers

Materials submitted for review are confidential. Reviewers should not upload the article or any part of it to publicly available generative AI tools unless the confidentiality of the submitted data can be guaranteed.

Generative AI tools used in the preparation of a review should operate in such a way that the submitted manuscript or its fragments are not used to train the model, are not shared further, and are not stored by the system. Reviewers are advised to check the specific terms and conditions of the service used.

AI tools may not replace reviewers’ independent scholarly assessment. Reviewers bear full responsibility for the content, reliability, and justification of their reviews.

Editorial Team

Editors are required to maintain the confidentiality of submitted materials and should not upload the article or any part of it to publicly available generative AI tools if doing so could compromise confidentiality, copyright, or the principles of the peer-review process.

Artificial intelligence tools may support technical and editorial tasks, but they may not replace editorial decisions concerning the acceptance or rejection of a manuscript. Final responsibility for all editorial decisions rests with the editors.